NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced that it will partner with The MITRE Corporation on a $20 million project to stand up two…
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Leader of 764 offshoot pleads guilty, faces up to 60 years in jail
A 19-year-old man from San Antonio pleaded guilty Friday to multiple crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children while acting as an administrator and leader…
Ukrainian national pleads guilty to Nefilim ransomware attacks
Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, a 35-year-old Ukrainian national, pleaded guilty Friday to multiple crimes stemming from his involvement in a string of ransomware attacks targeting U.S.…
Former incident responders plead guilty to ransomware attack spree
Former cybersecurity professionals Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin pleaded guilty Thursday to participating in a series of ransomware attacks in 2023 while they…
Cisco customers hit by fresh wave of zero-day attacks from China-linked APT
Cisco customers are confronting a fresh wave of attacks from a Chinese threat group that has actively exploited a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting the vendor’s…
Policymakers grapple with fallout from Chinese AI-enabled hack
Policymakers and companies are reckoning with increased reports over the past few months showing AI tools being leveraged to conduct cyber attacks on a larger…
U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks input on criminal penalties for deepfakes
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is issuing preliminary sentencing guidelines for criminal offenses under the Take It Down Act, a law passed earlier this year to…
Senate Intel chair urges national cyber director to safeguard against open-source software threats
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton is raising the spectre of foreign adversaries playing too heavy a role in open-source software, and asking the national…
React2Shell fallout spreads to sensitive targets as public exploits hit all-time high
Fallout from React2Shell — a stubborn vulnerability that impacts wide swaths of the internet’s scaffolding — continues to spread as public exploits and stealth backdoors…
DOJ announces takedown of alleged laundering platform used by cybercriminal groups
Federal prosecutors in Michigan say they have dismantled online infrastructure tied to an alleged money laundering operation that moved tens of millions of dollars in…
Illusory Systems settles with FTC over 2022 cryptocurrency hack
The Federal Trade Commission is ordering a company that publicly touted its cybersecurity capabilities to return recovered funds to victims and implement security reforms, after…
Outgoing GAO chief warns of ‘taking our foot off the gas’ at CISA
Retiring Comptroller General Gene Dodaro delivered a message to lawmakers Tuesday on what he believes should be one of Congress’s top priorities as he exits…